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Election nightmare for SNP as Joanna Cherry vows to 'lift the lid on everything' The rengade Nat is set to reveal how her party became in thrall to the transgender lobby and ditched its independence campaign

The concept of Joanna Cherry's memoir having an impact on the Scottish election.........her deluluism is unparalleled.

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottis...

Ramaphosa's government is a very interesting one making very interesting choices, but interviews with him are snooze city.

South African President Talks Trump, Racism and That Oval Office ‘Ambush’

'As Mr. Ramaphosa sees it, Ukraine’s effort to join NATO was a central cause of the conflict between the two nations' the ANC's stance on this war has been an embarrassment for years.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Cape Town is wonderful this time of year!

You can't make me read another Why Blue Labour is the Answer to Everything piece from another MP I didn't know about until 5 minutes ago. I rebuke it!

He's not one of those comedians who got a first from Oxford/is good at Poker/is the child of a Tory Minister from the 80s, and therefore has an air of intelligence about him; nor is he one of those comedians whose comedy is built on sharp observations about The State of Things Nowadays. What gives?

I know virtually nothing about Jimmy Carr except that he hosts panel shows and did dodgy tax stuff - does he have some claim to authority i'm missing?

This may well be motivated reasoning but it seems that the Greens' exposure to the mainstream is making them more serious whereas Reform's exposure to the mainstream is making them even crazier.

Interesting to compare Reform, who pick up a new policy that only appeals to a 30% share of the electorate every day, to the Greens, who appear to be ditching their 30% of the electorate policies (natural birth stuff a prime example) at roughly the same rate.

Unsurprisingly, very smoky in the city centre this morning. So grateful to the fire service who seem to have prevented the nightmare scenario.

Yom Kippur War strutting into the werkroom with the most terrifying dental work and lip fillers ever seen

Economic Crisis: All Stars

The Graham Norton strategy

I think about this, from his review of Sigrid’s 2022 album, often:

Harry Styles: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. Read Shaad D’Souza’s review of the album

Shaad D’Souza is such a fabulous writer and critic.

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Israeli Settlers Kill 3 Palestinians in a Weekend of West Bank Violence

In all, six Palestinian civilians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran just over a week ago, in what appears to be an intensification of settler violence while worldwide attention is focused elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

You’d think a white South African would be more circumspect about a homelands policy.

Okay can we admit that Sexy Coffee was a really strange name/vibe

not to be all “if this is were in London” but if this were Kings Cross- which has similar levels of traffic and history- it would absolutely be all over everyone’s news

Useless

Went to check for more updates on the fire on X and of course it’s all about how it started in a “Pakistani-owned vape shop”. Horrible site.

Fuck

Permanent scaffolding on both sides of Union Street then I suppose.

Horrible.

I love that they’re always eating together.

The most wonderful marriage in all of cinema.

It’s so weird to see large parts of the media on both sides of the Atlantic misread the public mood like this.

Independence readiness thermometers at half mast :(

Big lasagne.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation